Nothing says "zombie killing" like "boobs".

Overnight, Deep Silver announced a limited edition of Dead Island: Riptide and revealed that it would come with, among other things, a “grotesque take on an iconic Roman bust”. Or, in other words, a statue of… some boobs. In a bikini. With a bunch of skin flayed off.

This naturally drew the ire of basically everybody who saw it, and Deep Silver have now issued an apology for the statue, saying “For the limited run of the Zombie Bait Edition for Europe and Australia, a decision was made to include a gruesome statue of a zombie torso, which was cut up like many of our fans had done to the undead enemies in the original Dead Island.”

“We sincerely regret this choice. We are collecting feedback continuously from the Dead Island community, as well as the international gaming community at large, for ongoing internal meetings with Deep Silver’s entire international team today. For now, we want to reiterate to the community, fans and industry how deeply sorry we are, and that we are committed to making sure this will never happen again.”

Genuinely poor judgement, or calculated marketing stunt? We may never know.

They should stand their ground and keep it.
People have the choice of not buying the limited edition after all. :P

It’s nice to see Techland/Deep Silver hitting it big with this franchise, I thought they might have gone bust after they released Chrome and then dropped into obscurity.
Thankfully Dead Island sold 5+ million copies, so they have no excuse for the excessive bugs this time around. :)

Arguing that the statue is fine because you don’t want to have sex with it, and trying to turn the argument around by suggesting that James does, is ridiculous. Saying ‘hey this is sexualised’ isn’t so much revealing one’s true colours as it is pointing out the bleeding obvious.

Maybe I did read into your statement wrong. But I wasn’t the one who initially broached the subject.

This entire ‘thing’ as exe3 puts it, simply comes down to a subjective view of an object. Some people see it weird and disturbing, sex/gore related etc. some people don’t have a problem with it. Common sense would actually be knowing this from the get go.